Le Morne-Rouge
Le Morne-Rouge is a commune and town in the French overseas department and island of Martinique.
Geography
Le Morne-Rouge is the wettest town of Martinique, It is situated on a plateau between Mount Pelée and the massive of the Carbet Mountains.Climate
Le Morne-Rouge has a tropical rainforest climate. The average annual temperature in Le Morne-Rouge is. The average annual rainfall is with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around, and lowest in February, at around. The highest temperature ever recorded in Le Morne-Rouge was on 13 September 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was in December 2022.History
In 1763, Acadians who had been expelled from modern-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick during le Grand Dérangement landed at Le Morne-Rouge. In 1765, their colony, called Champflore, had roughly 400 residents, 100 of them Acadians who had previously been exiled to New York, the remainder from Germany and Alsace. Seventy-eight Acadians remained in 1767, and most or all had left Martinique for Quebec or Louisiana by 1800.The commune was founded in 1888, following the division of Saint-Pierre.